The province announced Monday it will be bringing midwifery services to Manitoba’s Interlake region.

“This is huge,” Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said at a press conference held at the Selkirk Regional Health Centre in Selkirk, Man., on Monday.

“This is something that is going to help transform care. Women, their families and communities have been asking for this for a long time.”

The province said it's introducing a new midwifery program in the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority Region which will be based in Selkirk, a city of approximately 10,000 people, located about 25 kilometres north of Winnipeg.

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The program will begin with two full-time midwives who will offer prenatal visits,

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